Finals Status: Defeated
Dec. 12th, 2009 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cherryI have defeated my finals! Huzzah!
I am in no means done for the term (two reports, one presentation, two ethics courses, and a thesis proposal remaining) but exams have been defeated. In retrospect, four grad classes and two jobs was a bad idea. I assumed that because I could handle six classes in undergrad, I could handle four at the grad level. This was unfortunately not based on any empirical evidence.
Other things which have been conquered:
- Karaoke. I have always wanted to get up the courage to embarrass myself in front of drunken strangers, and I had the chance to do so at a birthday last night. It was character-building!
- Some of the Oz books, oh my goodness. I have a deep routed love for the Wizard of Oz series, and have been looking for volumes with the original illustrations since -- well, pretty much since forever -- without any luck. Today, I found some of them at a used book store. YAY.
Things which have defeated me:
- The interwebs. I am ridiculously behind.
- Vidding. I decided to do some vidding as a reward to myself, for not dying. For some reason, my clipping program (MPEG Streamclip) has decided it is unable to the video files on half of my Dexter episodes. I have audio, but this is not terribly useful to me. It is making vidding rather difficult.
- My dishes. And apartment.
- Swimsuit shopping. Mine is disintegrating, what with being decorative and made for the beach/hotel/toe dipping, and not being made to withstand regular recreational/workout swimming. I am avoiding finding a replacement for as long as possible however, as I find swimsuit shopping supremely traumatic. There is a 76.3% chance it will defeat me, however, so I am putting off my inevitable vanquishing.
The most important part of all of this, however, is that I have defeated(ish) my exams. And I finally have some Oz books! There is much, much joy.
I am in no means done for the term (two reports, one presentation, two ethics courses, and a thesis proposal remaining) but exams have been defeated. In retrospect, four grad classes and two jobs was a bad idea. I assumed that because I could handle six classes in undergrad, I could handle four at the grad level. This was unfortunately not based on any empirical evidence.
Other things which have been conquered:
- Karaoke. I have always wanted to get up the courage to embarrass myself in front of drunken strangers, and I had the chance to do so at a birthday last night. It was character-building!
- Some of the Oz books, oh my goodness. I have a deep routed love for the Wizard of Oz series, and have been looking for volumes with the original illustrations since -- well, pretty much since forever -- without any luck. Today, I found some of them at a used book store. YAY.
Things which have defeated me:
- The interwebs. I am ridiculously behind.
- Vidding. I decided to do some vidding as a reward to myself, for not dying. For some reason, my clipping program (MPEG Streamclip) has decided it is unable to the video files on half of my Dexter episodes. I have audio, but this is not terribly useful to me. It is making vidding rather difficult.
- My dishes. And apartment.
- Swimsuit shopping. Mine is disintegrating, what with being decorative and made for the beach/hotel/toe dipping, and not being made to withstand regular recreational/workout swimming. I am avoiding finding a replacement for as long as possible however, as I find swimsuit shopping supremely traumatic. There is a 76.3% chance it will defeat me, however, so I am putting off my inevitable vanquishing.
The most important part of all of this, however, is that I have defeated(ish) my exams. And I finally have some Oz books! There is much, much joy.